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Babe Ruth, wearing his No. 3 uniform, receives a standing ovation as he comes out of the Cleveland Indians’ dugout to take a bow at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx on June 13, 1948.

On June 2, 1935, Babe Ruth, one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, ended his Major League playing career after 22 seasons, 10 World Series and 714 home runs. The following year, Ruth, a larger-than- life figure whose name became synonymous with baseball, was one of the first five players inducted into the sport’s hall of fame.

George Herman Ruth was born February 6, 1895, into a poor family in Baltimore. As a child, he was sent to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, a school run by Roman Catholic brothers, where he learned to play baseball and was a standout athlete. At 19, Ruth was signed by the Baltimore Orioles, then a Boston Red Sox minor league team. Ruth’s fellow teammates and the media began referring to him as team owner Jack Dunn’s newest “babe,” a nickname that stuck.

Ruth would later acquire other nicknames, including “The Sultan of Swat” and “The Bambino.”

To honor the iconic candy brand’s 90th anniversary, the brains behind Snickers decided, hey, what better way to celebrate that than with a 4,700-pound candy bar? Someone in the room then likely said, “There is no better way!” and thus the “largest Snickers bar ever created” was born.

The bar reportedly took more than 600 people to construct and used caramel, peanuts, nougat and 3,500 pounds of chocolate to create the “equivalent to more than 41,000 single-size Snickers bars.”

Construction of the large bar (above) that will be a tease to the Snickers commercial that will be played during the Super Bowl on Feb. 2.

Franklin Clarence Mars (September 24, 1882 – April 8, 1934)

Frank Mars, founder of Mars, Inc. (originally called Mar-O-Bar Co.), invented the Snickers bar in 1930, named after the favorite horse of the Mars family.